Points From The News

Northern Advocate, 4 January 1938, Page 6

Points From The News

rpHE marriage of Mr J. T. (“Jack”) ' Hore, .well-known throughout New Zealand as an All Black footballer, to Miss Miller, of Burnside, took place in Dunedin last night.—(P.A.)

Strait Airways, Ltd., has comJ pleted its second year of operation, and the returns show a striking increase in passengers, freight and mails carried. Passengers increased from 12,565 in the first year to 19,136 in the secdhd year, an increase of 52 per cent. —(P.A.)

THE 14-feet Jellicoe class boat Manihi, which was selected to represent Canterbury in the Sanders Cup contest, will be sailed by G. E. Brasell, who won the cup at Wellington in 1932 and successfully defended it at Lyttelton in 1933. The following have been chosen as the crew: A. Norris (spinnaker hand), R. Priddy and A. Olsen. (P.A.)

A SURPRISE visit to Suva and ad,r%" jacent islands is to be made by the Imperial escort vessel Wellington, which is to leave Auckland at 10 o’clock this morning for Suva. It is thought that the vessel is leaving at the request of the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific. Sir Arthur R Ichard s.—Special.

A 13-year-old girl, Enes Lumsden, x daughter of Mr and Mrs J. Lumsden. of Poxton Beach, was found unconscious in some poplars at the back of a section near the riverfront at a late hour last night. A doctor and the police were called, and the girl Was removed to hospital—Special.

A SIGHT rare in Dunedin was wltneSsed when some 70 members of

the Dunedin Police Force paraded at the Dunedin Hospital and then escorted the body of the late Constable James Butler back to the Central Police Station, before being sent to Waipukurau. Constable Butler died on Sunday morning after receiving injuries when helping to arrest a drunken man last week. —(P.A.)

T>AIL communication in North Taraiv naki was cut off this morning when a large special meat train from Patea to New Plymouth was derailed at Durham Road, New Plymouth. Five trucks were off the line, three being badly crushed and twisted. The track was "also considerably damaged for some distance, the rails being buckled. No one was hurt. —< P.A.).

THOUGHT to have been bitten by a centipede while sleeping in a bach at Palm Beach. Waiheke, Mrs R. H. Hunt, of Auckland, suffered a severely swollen face, which made breathing difficult and prevented her from openjug her mouth. When her lips were forced open the pain spread ,to her throat and jaw. Her condition has improved—Special.